Category Archives: Atheism

Reclaiming a Better Future: A Christian Vision for True Environmental Stewardship

Book review by Sebastian Wang.

Reclaiming a Better Future: A Christian Vision for True Environmental Stewardship
Robert G. Patridge, 2026

In an age when environmental alarmism often serves as the thin end of a wedge for ever-greater centralisation of power, this book arrives as a refreshing, rigorously argued and profoundly hopeful counter-blast. Written by Robert G. Partridge, an economist who clearly loves both creation and the Creator, Reclaiming a Better Future is no mere polemic against “climate policies.” It is a sustained, biblically saturated call to recover the ancient mandate of Genesis 2:15 – to “cultivate and keep” the earth – without surrendering sovereignty to the state, the UN, the IPCC or any other modern Tower of Babel.

The author’s central thesis is as simple as it is radical: the real conflict is not between “stewardship” and “exploitation”. The real conflict is between those who believe in  creation, or a part of it, as sovereign, and those who believe this sovereignty belongs exclusively to the Creator. Once that question is settled, everything else follows. Chapter 1 lays the theological groundwork with admirable clarity, showing how both extreme environmentalism (nature as sovereign) and unbridled exploitation (man as sovereign) ultimately rest on the same godless foundation. The third option – God as sovereign – liberates humanity to exercise dominion responsibly, without the need for global commissars.

What follows is a searching yet constructive critique of current climate orthodoxy. The author is willing, for the sake of argument, to grant the mainstream narrative in Chapter 2, only to demonstrate that even if the alarmists are right, the top-down, coercive remedies being proposed are morally, economically and spiritually disastrous. He draws on economists such as George Reisman and Walter Block to argue for adaptation over mitigation, private-property rights over regulation, and market-tested innovation (including nuclear power) over government fiat. The moral heart of the chapter – that no individual’s supposedly climate-relevant emissions can be traced to measurable harm, and therefore taxing or regulating them constitutes theft – is devastatingly persuasive.

Subsequent chapters broaden the canvas. Chapter 3 exposes the “curse of the greater good,” using the Joseph story and the history of environmental policy to show how well-intentioned central planning repeatedly produces worse outcomes than the problems it claims to solve. Chapter 4 turns a prophetic eye on the spiritual and monetary roots of environmental degradation: the “legalised forgery” of fractional-reserve banking and the “magic money tree” that funds both ecological folly and the growth of Leviathan. The diagrams on the spiritual consequences of excessive government are particularly striking.

The book’s literary and cultural range is impressive. The extended meditation on Watership Down in Chapter 5 – especially the allegory of Cowslip’s warren as the welfare-state snare – is one of the most memorable passages I have read in years. It perfectly illustrates how a culture that forgets its old stories and linear worldview ends up accepting death as final while desperately clinging to the state for salvation. Chapter 6 returns to the Tower of Babel motif, tracing the failure of globalisation and the Covid-era attempt to resurrect it. The author’s eschatology of dominion – the confident expectation that the gospel will be victorious before Christ’s return – is presented not as utopian fantasy but as the historic Christian default, recovered from the defeatism that has gripped much of the Church since the late nineteenth century.

The tone throughout is irenic yet unflinching. The author is no angry culture-warrior; he is a friend of truth who repeatedly urges Christians to be “shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves.” He criticises fellow believers (including respected figures such as astrophysicist Hugh Ross) where necessary, but always with respect and a clear desire for constructive dialogue. Even his engagement with atheist economists such as Block and Reisman is generous: their policy prescriptions are welcomed precisely because they do not violate biblical commandments, in marked contrast to the ruling economic orthodoxy of Keynesianism.

A few minor quibbles do not detract from the book’s power. Some readers may wish for more engagement with recent empirical climate data, though the author’s decision to grant the narrative for argument’s sake actually strengthens his case. Others might question whether a strict 10 per cent-of-GDP ceiling on government is politically achievable without a prior spiritual revival; the author would doubtless reply that the revival must come first. These are not weaknesses so much as invitations to further thought.

Reclaiming a Better Future is a book for our time. It will comfort the many Christians who have felt uneasy about the statist turn of much environmental rhetoric without quite knowing why. It will challenge those who have unconsciously baptised the IPCC’s agenda. And it will equip a new generation to speak truth to power – not with fear, but with the quiet confidence that comes from knowing the Sovereign Lord of creation. If enough believers take its message to heart, we may yet see swords beaten into ploughshares, not by UN fiat, but by the slow, faithful work of the Kingdom of God in the here and now. Highly recommended.

Thomas Carlyle’s ‘Past & Present:’ How The Decline of the West Started Centuries Ago

The War on Beauty posted this 23-minute video. And writes in the description:

“Thomas Carlyle’s ‘Past and Present’ is one of the most unique books I have ever read. It is a prophetic look at the root causes of what was beginning to tear down the core of specifically English, but ultimately European, society. With growing atheism, idleness and Dilettantism, and mammon-worship, Europe went from Heroic and True to Un-Heroic and living in a “sham,” in just a few short centuries–a reality which is only just coming into full fruition now.”

See also: Thomas Carlyle for Beginners: Where to Start (35 minutes).

Antonio Gramsci’s long march through history

This article contains this:

In Gramsci’s own words, he viewed the task thus: “Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”

That however is somewhat of a misrepresentation of what Gramsci said, according to this article. A quote from this:

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The fake Gramsci quote (on “capturing the culture”) is often combined with a real Gramsci quote (on Christian socialism). I’ve bolded the real portion:

Any country grounded in Judaeo-Christian values can’t be overthrown until those roots are cut. [….] Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. [….] In the new order, socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

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Silencing the Scientists: Dissent, Censorship, and the New Technocracy

Article by Mark Keenan.

Excerpts (my emphases):

Critics argue that by severing science from broader philosophical or spiritual questions, modern institutions emphasize data while overlooking deeper questions of meaning and truth. In this view, a kind of technocracy has emerged—one in which scientific institutions can appear less like explorers of reality and more like gatekeepers defending established doctrine. Real science seeks understanding; fake science seeks obedience.

If we are to restore genuine inquiry, we must recover not only intellectual freedom but moral and spiritual humility — the recognition that truth cannot be owned by the state, the market, or the algorithm.

[. . .]

When Truth Becomes Treason

The moralization of science has turned dissent into sin. A climate skeptic is not “wrong” — he is a “denier.” A doctor questioning mandates is not “debating” — he is “spreading misinformation.” This is the language of religion, not reason. Science without dissent is not science at all; it is propaganda. But the cost of silence in the present is immense: an entire generation is being taught that conformity equals integrity.

Restoring Scientific Freedom

The answer is not to reject science, but to depoliticize it. That begins with transparency: open data, open debate, and open funding. Research should not be filtered through bureaucratic agendas or corporate interests. Independent journals, decentralized platforms, and citizen-led inquiry offer a path forward — if the public demands it. Science belongs to everyone, not to the technocrats who manage its narrative. True environmental and medical progress will never come from censorship, but from curiosity — the very trait that built civilization itself.

A New Age of Technocratic Faith

We are entering an era where “belief in science” has replaced belief in God — but without humility or grace. Many worry that a small number of technology platforms now have extraordinary power to shape what information is visible—effectively influencing via algorithms which viewpoints are elevated or ignored.

Unless we restore the freedom to question — whether about carbon, Covid, or any future crisis — we will find ourselves living not in a knowledge economy, but in an information prison. To critics, parts of institutional science now function almost like a new secular authority—one that emphasizes compliance and control. And its heretics are, once again, the last defenders of reason.

My (PwG) thoughts on this:

“If the public demands it”, the author writes, we will get the necessary structures to return to honest science: “Independent journals, decentralized platforms, and citizen-led inquiry”.

He correctly recognises that we are in a crisis “not only [of] intellectual freedom but moral and spiritual humility”.

So, the only way to get the public to “demand” a return to proper science is to first restore “moral and spiritual humility”.

This is the task of the century for Christian churches worldwide. Unfortunately, it appears that about 99% of them don’t recognise it, at least not to its full extent.

The Basis of the Culture and Institutions of Britain

Article by Michael Wood.

Excerpt:

How many of us know, for instance, that in the year AD37, the Church at Jerusalem sent one of the Seventy Apostles, named Aristobulus, to Britain as our first Bishop, landing at Hengist Head in company with several others?  That he established the Christian faith to grow in this country from that time?  This has been acknowledged by several Councils in Rome as making the British Church older than either the Church of Rome or the Church of Greece.

More on Aristobulus of Britannia here.

OWNING CHARLIE: Christian Evangelist, Apologist & Martyr

In this podcast episode, Dr. Michael Thiessen, Pastor Nate Wright, and Dr. Joe Boot discuss the implications of Charlie Kirk’s death and the church’s response to it. They express concern over the reluctance of many church leaders to acknowledge Kirk’s martyrdom and the broader cultural implications of this silence. The conversation delves into the truncation of the gospel, the political nature of the Christian message, and the need for the church to engage with cultural issues rather than retreating into silence. They emphasize the importance of recognizing the gospel as a transformative force in society and the necessity of addressing violence and injustice from a biblical perspective.